package org.apache.lucene.analysis;

/**
 * Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
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import java.io.Reader;

/** A LetterTokenizer is a tokenizer that divides text at non-letters.  That's
  to say, it defines tokens as maximal strings of adjacent letters, as defined
  by java.lang.Character.isLetter() predicate.

  Note: this does a decent job for most European languages, but does a terrible
  job for some Asian languages, where words are not separated by spaces. */

public class LetterTokenizer extends CharTokenizer {
    /** Construct a new LetterTokenizer. */
    public LetterTokenizer(Reader in) {
        super(in);
    }

    /** Collects only characters which satisfy
     * {@link Character#isLetter(char)}.*/
    protected boolean isTokenChar(char c) {
        return Character.isLetter(c);
    }
}
